Dover township, Lafayette County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Dover township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
59% of Dover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1848
- Northeast: 57
- Midwest: 201
- South: 146
- West: 143
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $19,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
146 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 799
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 44
- 5 to 9: 18
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 27
- Mobile homes: 97
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,700
Housing units in Dover township with a mortgage: 260 (37 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 182
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Repair and maintenance (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dover township:
- German (38.8%)
- United States or American (15.3%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
- Russian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Colombia (37%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 899 (78%)
- Carpooled: 146 (13%)
- Walked: 54 (5%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (2%)
146 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
96.4% of residents of Dover township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 35% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (96% speak English very well, 4% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,295- In family households: 1,992 (543 male householders, 83 female householders)
580 spouses, 722 children (621 natural, 35 adopted, 66 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 13 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 303 (116 male householders (96 living alone)), 151 female householders (135 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 140 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 261 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 133 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 231 1-person, 32 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
420 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (20 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 50
| Here: | 15.8% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 5.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |